Achilles

A-kil-leez

(3 syl.).

King of the Myrmidons (in Thessaly), the hero of
Homer's epic poem called the Iliad. He is represented as brave
and relentless. The poem begins with a quarrel between him and
Agamemnon, the commander in chief of the allied Greeks: in consequence
of which Achilles refused to go to battle. The Trojans prevail, and
Achilles sends forth his friend Patroclos to oppose them. Patroclos
fell; and Achilles, in anger, rushing into the battle killed Hector,
the commander of the Trojans. He himself, according to later poems,
fell in battle a few days afterwards, before Troy was taken.

Achilles Army:

The Myrmidons followed him to Troy.

Death of:

It was Paris who wounded Achilles in the heel with an arrow (a post-Homeric story).